Sell your body, or sell your soul? Desperation had driven me to this point. I was determined not to return to the soul-eating life of a cubicle serf, so, unemployed and grasping for tuition money, I’d become a Craigslist whore, selling my services to slick marketers wielding surveys and hawking focus groups.

One cigarette a day We are bouncing over a rough ocean, on a boat packed with twenty or so fishermen, and I am breathing the smoke from my grandfather’s cigarettes.

Merchants of death Wall Street has found a new way to make a buck: buy up the life-insurance policies of the sick and the aged at a fraction of their cost, bundle them into bonds that will be sold to investors, and profit from them when the policy holders die sooner rather than later.

Thoughts on the 36th anniversary of Roe V. Wade To commemorate that anniversary, the Maine Choice Coalition, along with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the League of Young Voters, and the Portland Phoenix, are teaming up to screen the film I Had An Abortion at SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, January 28.

Practice makes precious After seeing her do her thing at the House of Blues on Wednesday, I think I can safely conclude that something about Jenny Lewis just doesn’t do it for me.

Staph infection — the full story That’s right, a rare bug that threatened to eat away at gay guys like mice on cheese is rampant in the city closest to Portland.

Ouch! Things haven’t been going well as of late for Needham-based chronic-pain specialist Dr. Joseph Zolot.

Milestones This week marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, and although not a hotbed of infections, Maine and Portland were some of the first communities in the country to begin to tackle the virus.

Be a sap This past weekend, Holly Sheehan and Steve Niles decided to take their sons to Snell Family Farm’s Sugaring Sunday.

As goes Gloucester? Waves of chatter wash over the city of Gloucester, where 17 high-school students are pregnant.